September 8 -12

______ fill in the blank to describe this week!

Some suggestions were: wonderful, excellent, second and I just waaannnnnnnnaaaaaaaa go home 😎 - you can guess if this was Mrs. Barnden or a student 💜

From the kids:

We learned some new words like evokes, kamik and venues - Clinton

We had gym, and we learned a new skill of throwing - EB, Ted, and EJ

We did a slideshow on our expert topic that we know a lot about - EJ

We learned how to do coordinate plane geometry this week and next week we are going to try battleship - Lizzie

In math, we learned geometry - Ahmed

We did field study. We were writing about Phyllis Webstad and residential school survivors - M.A

We learned some new literacy stations like book making, letter writing and expert station - Lilly

In Science we learned about the coldest and the hottest place - Ahmed

We watched a video of Terry Fox's life - E.J

We did friendship writing about different things to be a good friend - Lizzie

We started to learn about Terry Fox - Evaya

In music, we introduced ourselves by singing - Ahmed

We read about residential schools - E.J

Important dates:

September 18 - Terry Fox Run 🏃

September 24 - Youthlink Presentation for Grade 5s

September – Subway Fun Lunch – Orders can be placed at healthyhunger.ca

September 25 – 5:00 – 7:00 – Welcome to the New Year Open House

September 26 - Orange Shirt day 🧡

September 29 & 30 - No school

October 2 - Picture day 📷

Hi Everyone!

What a week! Ms. Sera and I are loving getting to know your kiddos better and seeing them shine in all of their academic and social glory! We are definitely working on expected behaviour in the classroom, building our learning stamina (trying to make it the afternoon with a little energy) and figuring out our new routines.

Some of the things we started this week are: new literacy stations, Weather as our first Science unit, discussions around Orange Shirt day and what it means. We took some time outside today to practice our sit spots as well as reflect on The Orange Shirt Story by Phyllis Webstad. We also found so many ladybugs and spent time observing them and collecting them.

The class also wrote some incredible paragraphs about what it means to be a friend. I was really impressed with their work and loved reading their ideas. They also did a great job of using paragraph format.

We started Coordinate Geometry with a show what you know about Geometry! We will move into plotting and moving points next week as well as playing battle ship using a coordinate plane.